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'Sellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Duncannon ; an il the peaker of the House of Commons having been summoned )), Sir Augustus Clifford, attended at the bar of the House, :accompanied by several Members of the House of Coin mons to hear the same :—Murderers' Execution Bill ; Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill ; Chapels of Ease (Ireland) Bill ; Instrments of Societies Sasine (S co tl an d) Bill ; Benefit Building Sill Bill ; Liverp oo l Fi re an d Lif e Insurance Company ; Blacklruth, &c., Small Debts Bill ; London and 'Croydon Railway Bill ; Preston and Longridge Railway Bill ; Lone,on and Holyhead Roads Bill ; Heriot's Hospi tal Bill ; Christ's Hospital Estate Bill ; Ree's Naturaliza tion SID ; Reiss's Naturalization Bill ; Souchay's Naturali zation ; Schmidt's Naturalization Bill. CHESHIRE AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. The Duke of SUTHERLAND presented several peti tions against the Cheshi re and Manchester Railway Bill. P OOR LAW AAIENDMENT BILL. Lord ST RADBROOKE presented a p e ti t i on f rom trialbrooke, in Suffolk, against the Poor Law Amend anent Act. EXCISE (IRELAND) BILL. O th e (Irel nan motion of Lord DUNCANNON , t h e E xc i se d) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Tuesday. PRISONERS' COUNSEL BILL. 'f The O r d er of the Day having been read for the R e p or t the Committ ee on th i s Bill bing received, of Lord WH A RN, CI, IFFE r os e t o o pp ose it. Th e a l terat i on cthe law in this respect was uncalled for, because the judges ould now by th e ' law of the land make an order directing that sers should be defended by counsel. As matters now stood, the counsel for the prosecution never influenced or over -stated th e case, and the object of both judge and ecioeueinssioenl were to. e li c i t t h e truth, and obtain a right were to upon tlie evidence given ; but if thi s Bill th e y pass, th e counsel for the prosecution, knowing e was to be; a speech from the prisoner's counsel, elmwould endeavour to make the most of the case, and each tns e, l would vi a with each other in endeavouring to pro duce tnegreatesi.; impression on the minds of the jury. He they be bought the In ost advisable course was, that the Judge nut in. possession of the facts of the case, and vv ." glve the Sutry such directions as he might consider they urr aoted. of felony,Ca s es o f nisi pins differed en ti re ly f rom cases In , ?,very case of nisi pins there were two dis tinct ' dat na • Poi le as to the facts, and the other as to the 1:• ges ;in sh ort, there were two issues, and it was utterly it:possible to c.. nne to any fair estimate of damages without .I. e blterpositio a of counsel. In cases of felony wrong ver tucts were son ictimes given, and the real question was, were son alteration would have the desired effect `,) He thought that it .avould not, and hoped their Lordships would a gree to the motion with which he should conclude, ilam elY, that th te • 'Bill be read that day six months. his Lord LYN:I(3HURST said that the course pursued by Noble Frieakl on this occasion was one attended with Nn incon venience. Upon the second reading of the cussion, is ill, when the principle of the Bill was naturally under dis every I:tw Lord in that House expressed a strong °Pinion in fav o ur of the measure. His Noble Friend was Presentle. upon t'aat occasi on , an d h e h a d rema i ned perfectly si another Stage of th e Bill , hi s No b le Friend came down to House, with an able and eloquent speech, for the pur- Pose of attacking the principle of the Bill. This un steadiness or, purpose in his Noble Friend—this halting betwee n two, ()pillions, as it were —was productive of this evil, that thlcteloo t uent speech of his Noble Friend must either remai n witho ut an answer, or that those who supported the other side of the questio n must again tro u bl e t h e H ouse 'Oby repeati7ar, arguments whi c h thy had urged on the mer ocilr.alon, an d wh i ch then appeared to satisfy the Mind o f hi s N o b le Friend, and were favourably received by the House . The Noble Lord stated that eloquence, an Passion, at i d zeal would be introduced into Courts of Cri d urinal Jus• ice, and this he conceived an argument against Th e Bill. It certainly appeared to be a most extraordinar propositic al to say that p the only cases in which zeal, in y Vbich eloquence, and in which powerful reasoning should 1 11 • ° t be us ,ed were those cases in which the interests and tve s of - 101°w-subje c t s were at stake. His Noble Friend, jo addition to this, stated that he was quite satisfied that the ca' ect of th e s y s t em wou ld b e, that able and eloquent Fs`v°c nes would procure th e acqu i tta l o f pr i soners in cases .4 W b it h they oin , ht to be convicted. If the rule laid down by 1. 4. tird Coke were correct, namely, that " No Counsel is -•n cl itua case of felony, for the evidence ought to be so clear that it cannot be contradicted," and if that rule, as Zo u r fi ` nu ' a and adopted by another Noble and Learned arab' t!.L°l.d Nottingham), on the trial of Lord Corn 144:„<tration of _►.n.; were to b e the true rule to prevail in the ad- Criminal Justice in cases of felony, be th e ,i o l'Yndburst) was not apprehensive of the effect of Nol ) L j e - V ene e of Counsel in cases of that description. His _rora, riend said that conclusions ought not to be drawn iferente'll'ses in which the admiuistration of justice was dif .ovwbsotielrdrinto.t take "11 tha' of England.He (Lord Lyndhurst) 'Where ' 'up ' the titfth - 1e House by answering that I°o, Not he would refer to cases in point—to cases seen the law was similar, and where this privilege had ;dm dgranted without the slightest inconvenience. He had 414 dr It e Y "'Wed to the United States ; but since he had last tunit ssed the House on this subject, he had had an oppor- Le had Ye'l a scertaining how the system worked there, and l a io l t h e satisfaction to hear that it was found to work ~,, out t i le slightest inconvenience. The authority to wench h e , c d veisiv . should refer was exceedingly short, and it was fer r m e ' as it a p peare d to hi m, upon the question. He re -16 -; tli th e W est Ind i a Islands, and he would refer, in 14'w fire t instan ce , to the Hand of Jamaica, wh ere t h e t h e ' 1 as th e l aw of England, and administered upon s a i s i s ime Prpw a ors there inciples. In th e repor t o f t h e C om- all or.ers the re was this question :—" Are Coun se l to n i c ti . ~ addr ess a j ury on behalf of a prison er .4 r h ni,nm cases in thi s C our t ?" The answer w as , fro " eY are ." "If so, is any i nconven i ence f oun d to resu l t talg%ll the practic e ?" '‘ None whatever." The person who .a n t e( . l that report was Sir M. Scarlett, the Chief Justice of :E island, and brother of the Lord Chief Baron of the ithZ.-_, lle g t .ler- Could any testimony be more conclusive than Lice r In all the other West India Islands the same pi-tw irl tient th e _ le: prevailed. H e would beg the House to consider for a ase, having slla e case of a man bowed down with infirmity and no physical strength, and yet to such a per lii'llvao assistance was afforded. That was the case of Lord , at• Take the case of a foreigner, arrested for felony, and Placed at the bar. He was naturally ignorant of the z aws of ILhe Country , and of the course of proceeding ; and ,2twitlntanding this, he must conduct his own defence. lbe co,nsequence was that the poor man became lost in a fenc e . triaz e of perplexities, and would not say a word in his &- With Again ' take th e case of a man born deaf and dumb, ievi out the faculty of s i g h t , c h arge d w i th a felony. The out having been gone through, the judge said at the T ° fielusio n ta the prisoner, " You have heard the evidence :liatl°,er9etleat against you, and if you wish to say anything in your ttQC speakow, you may addres s the jury, as your counsel can t you may What could me more monstrous an this ? And he could assure the House that he had see!, cases in practice as bad as the one he had just de scri'oed. Yet this was the system the Noble Lord eulogized. judlle would call upon their Lordshi as the hereditar ges o f t hi s l and, not to sanction the continuance of such .t. s ystem ; and h e wou ld call upon the Right Reverend rrelates, all of whom he respected and revered, and who must be deeply imbued with the principl e o f j ust i ce, to w i pe foto, this st a i n — t hi s re li c of a barbarous age ; and, in con cluding, he thought he could not do better than read from tn ess a y on the subject a sho r t passage, which described 'mostforcibly his feelings and opinions upon the question. It was written by a clergyman of the Church of England— ihj a dignitary of that Church ; and he felt sure that the paste which he should read would meet with the attention 5 their Lordships. The passage was as follows :—" We have often blushed for English, humanity when we have 111 beard the r ep l y, ' Your counse l cannot speak for you —you 45 t speak for y ourse lf.' This i s th e reply given to the 1111 Poor girl of fift een , t o the f ore i gner, to the deaf ii,oin, to the s t ammere r, to th e feeble and V , to t h e most abject and ignorant of human t n gs- Ho w o f ten have we seen a mean wretch strug •lng agai nst t h e agonies of his spirit and the rudeness of Is conception —his awe at seeing persons of learned mind, 411 d his shame at the accusationbrought against him—lhis I:strents and children perhaps gazing at him for the wa a n s t t helpiTe• The mariner sinking in the wave does 1 . more th I ' 11 01. i One charitable an us poor wretch. But age cannot lave it, rul e gnorance nor the modesty of woman. sile nces all the defenders of these wretched beings, s,and 41 the bi tterest moment of human misery mercy is blotted eat from the ways of man." Tbe Earl of RADNOR said that he was surprised at Learned the. _ sudden change of opinions in the Noble and . "*„ .l4 td, for it was only within two months of the introduction " I t his Bill that the Noble and Learned Lord had been tom must c onvin ce d b y authorities which, the N o bl e an d L e arned have heard cited in every previous discussion Zetbis subject. Up to the period to which be referred, the Noble and Learned Lord had always been adverse to aa * . e ,, en ange. He should, however, vote for the present -"I " , as he thought the present system so anomalous and `),.ffensive that it ought to be altered, and that this measure 4° ; 11 ( 1 in all probability lead to further alterations. svhich lie Lord LYNDHURST said, with regard to the course had formerly taken, their Lordships had per nat. h. • him in a previous discussion to enter into an expla t_aetion of the reasons upon which he had acted. He had O t t .o, n stated that in the opinion which, he then held he had illsten Sir Michael Foster as his guide ; he had adopted ~.,,OPlnion and . had entered into his reasons ; but after ,'"og aequ:red further experience, experience which he obtained in his character as a Judge, and after full consi deration of the the question, and after having fairly contrasted t _ (.!PPosing arguments, the result was that he became then that all those opinions were exaggerated, and " Itc.eame to the conclusion which he had already taken I the liberty to state. The Noble Lord had also objected to his bringing in the Bill at so late a period. Now he would only say that the Bill came from the other House of Parliament, and it was as competent for the Noble Lord to have taken up the measure as himself ; but the Noble Lord had suffered it to lay on their Lordships' table for three or four weeks ; then what right had the Noble Lord to complain of delay on his part ? But lie would tell the House the history of the transaction. He (Lord Lyndhurst) had held a con% ersation with the Noble Lord the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in re ference to the subject, and it was his (Lord Denman's) desire that lie should take charge of the measure ; and further, that Noble Lord had requested him not to pro ceed with it immediately, because the report of the Com missioners, though it was ready, had not then been laid on their Lordships' table, and he considered it essential that the report should first be on the table, and be printed, and in their Lordships' hands. Out of deference to the opinion of that Noble Lord he had taken up the Bill, and moved the second reading at the time he did. He had not delayed the Bill at all, but had only acted in communica tion with other Noble Lords. He thought himself bound to say so much in his own defence ; but he was very glad to have the support of the Noble Lord as to Bill gene rally, though he (the Earl of Radnor) objected to the ex clusion of certain clauses. It was not his (Lord Lynd hurst's) suggestion that those clauses should be struck out. The Noble and Learned Judge of the Court of King's Ben-.:11, who had very great practical experience on the sub ject, had recommended the exclusion of those clauses ; and the Learned Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, with an experience equal, if not greater, had also entertained the same opinion. . The Earl of RADNOR said that the Noble Lord said he had followed the opinion of Sir Michael Foster, but, ac cording to the record, exactly the contrary seemed to be the case ; for the Noble Lord (Lyndhurst) appeared to have said in the House of Commons upon the occasion al luded to—" That, however much lie might be disposed to respect the opinion of Sir Michael Foster, this was not a matter of authority, but a question which depended upon the result of every day's experience." Lord LYNDHURST—There must be some mistake ; that is quite in opposition to Sir ISlichael Foster. lam not responsible for that report. Lord PLUNKET was of opinion that the Counsel for the prisoner should be allowed the last word. He certainly thought that that clause should be re-inserted. Lord ABINGER could not support the clause which gave prisoners the last word in all cases—such a course was inconsistent with theory, inconsistent with practice, and, indeed, he could not imagine upon what grounds it could be allowed. If that clause were introduced into the Bill, he was confident it would produce the greatest public in convenience. He certainly was ,at present favourable to the Bill ; but, if this clause was inserted, it would un doubtedly be to him an argument for opposing the Bill altogether. Lord LYNDHURST said, as to the exclusion of the clause regarding the depositions, that was the result of a consultation among the Judges altogether. Lord ABINGER did not consider the clause a very va luable one. After an observation from Lord RADNOR, The Earl of DEVON said that,in spite of allthe autho rity which was arrayed against him, he felt bound to express his opinion that the measure could produce no good practi cal effect. The Duke of RICHMOND thought that if they could rely upon the juries of Jamaica and the colonies for just discrimination, they might at least trust the juries before whom this Bill would operate, and that at any rate it would be much better that some guilty persons should escape than that a single innocent one should suffer. As to the clause respecting the " last word," for the sake of uniformity of practice alone, which was highly desirable, he thought the clause must be admitted. Lord LYNDHURST would have no objection to the insertion of a declaratory clause ; but he had been told that there were a great many new magistrates in the country who would not allow persons to appear before them on summary convictions. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it essential to justice that the prisoner should be supplied with a copy of the depositions. In reference to the clause for allowing the prisoner the last word, he clearly thought it should be in serted, because it would prevent the evidence from being kept back from fear of a reply, and would at least save the Court two speeches ; for the prosecutor's Counsel would not reply if a further reply was allowed to the Counsel for the prisoner. Upon the whole question he was happy to see that all objections were lost sight of in the approbation which the principle of the Bill met with. The time was now gone by when it could be said that " Prisoners hang that jurymen may dine."—( A laugh.) It would no longer be permitted that whilst in all other matters where the object was the investigation of truth a just method was adopted, a different course should be pursued in cases which concerned life and property. One of the witnesses examined before before the Commission had spoken so forcibly as to that anomaly, that lie would trouble their Lordships by reading an extract. [The Learned Lord then read an extract to the following effect :—" A person might be tried for an act which in one point of view became a treasonable offence, and then it would be considered an overt act of treason— and he would be allowed the benefit of counsel ; he might be tried for the same act, viewed in the light of a theft, and that would be a felony—then he could not have counsel ; he might be tried for the same act as a mere misdemeanor —and then again he would be entitled to make his defence by counsel"—(Laughter)—so that they gave him counsel in the first case, none in the second, and counsel again in the third, and all that was done for the investigation of truth.] —( A laugh.) He was aware, as all persons holding judicial situations were, that it was much more easy to decide a case after having heard only one side ; then they felt-na_doubt —all was clear—(Laughter)—and some Noble Lords appeared anxious to act upon this principle, " Don't let them hear both sides, and then they won't doubt."—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) But the true principle was this— that when the facts of the case were themselves such as to leave a doubt of the guilt, then the prisoner was entitled to the benefit of that doubt. The prisoner was entitled to the benefit of any doubt legitimately raised, and he (the Lord Chancellor) would only say, let Counsel be heard, in order, if he could, to create that doubt, and then let the prisoner take the advantage of it. Lord NV HARNCLIeFE replied. The Noble Lord's amendment was negatived without a division, and the report was then received. 'A declaratory clause respecting the depositions was in serted upon the motion of Lord Lyndhurst, and The Duke of RICHMOND moved that clause 4 be inserted. Lord ABINGER stated that he had a most decided ob jection to the clause. 'The Duke of RICHMOND then gave notice of his mo tion for to-morrow (this day). Upon the motion of Lord GLENELG the Punishment of Offences (Cape of Good Hope) Bill was react a second time. On the motion of the Earl of RADNOR the Toll on Steam Carriages Bill was read a second time, and referred to a Select Committee. On the motion of the Earl of DEVON the London and Drogheda Railway Bill was read a second time. 'The Church Discipline Bill went through a Committee, and several other Bills were forwarded a stage.—Adjourned. EXHUMATION OF ALIBEAUD. The Droit gives an account of the exhumation of the body of Alibeaud, which had been put into the fosse destined for persons executed, and covered with only a small quantity of earth. A demand to that effect had been pre sented to the Prefect of Police by M. Ledru, who had been authorised by Alibeaud before his condemnation to take care of his burial, and after some difficulty, was ac ceded to, on condition that the relatives of the deceased alone, accompanied by M. Ledru, should assist at the re moval of the body ; and that this ceremony should take place as soon as the gates of the cemetery were opened. At live o'clock on Tuesday morning, a Commissary of Po lice and M. Ledru, accompanied by M. and Madame Leger, cousins of Alibeaud, were at the cemetery. A brigade of police-officers, en bourgeois, occupied the en trance, and were round the grave. The gravediggers took the corpse out, and, having stripped it, put it in a winding sheet. The head had not been placed in the fosse ; the porter of the cemetry had kept it by order of the Commis sary of Police. It was placed in the coffin, and the Com missary of Police then caused M. and Madame Leger, with M. Ledru, to approach, in order to recognise the remains of the deceased. A distressing scene then took place. The face of Alibeaud was hardly at all altered ; his long hair thrown back, left his forehead exposed ; and his eyes, though dim, seemed still to look round. His lips were firmly pressed together, and his countenance had a look of pride upon it. M. Ledru ask e d f or perm i ss i on to cut o ff a lock of his hair, to send to his parents. This was granted by the Commissary of Police, who requested that the clothes might be put into the coffin, lest they might become objects of scandal. M. Ledru only retained the black silk handkerchief that Alibeaud had worn. After the closing, of the coffin the bearers of it set out for the cemetery of Mont Parnasse ; some sergens de yille led the way, and several were ranged on each side. M. Ledru followed immediately after, and then M. and Madame Leger, with the Commissary of Police. The coffin was lowered into the grave amidst profound silence, the earth thrown upon it, and a proces-verbal of the exhumation immediately drawn up and signed. CHELTENHAM, JULY 11.—The town is now rapidly filling with company, and all the customary gaieties of the season are in full operation. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1836. CUSTOMS' ACTS. (From the Votes of the House of Commons.) The following Resolution was reported last night :—" That the Duties of Customs following shall be charged on all Guods imported into the United Kingdom, in lieu of those now I,ayable on the like articles, that is to say— Duty proposed. Aristolochia, the lb. Beads of Glass, the lb 0 1 0 Boxwood, the ton Bugles, the lb 0 1 0 Cassia Fistula, the lb 0 0 1 Cedar, imported from the Bay of Honduras in a British ship cleared out from the Port of Belize, the ton 0 10 0 Chalk ; viz, prepared or otherwise manufactured, the 100/. value Chalk, unmanufactured, the 100/. value Chicory, or any other vegetable matter applicable to the uses of Chicory; viz. : Raw or kiln-dried, the cwt 1 0 0 Roasted or ground, the cwt 216 0 Ebony, the ton Feathers, viz. Ostrich, the lb. Flower Roots, the 1001. value Horns and Horn Tips, the ton Linitum Vitae, the ton Mahogany, imported from any Foreign Country, entered after the sth July, 1837, the ton 5 0 0 Morphia and its Salts, the lb 0 16 0 Nickel, viz. Arsenate of Nickel, in lumps or powder, being in an unrefined state, the 100/ 5 0 0 Nickel, metallic, refined, and Oxide of Nickel, the 1001. value Olive Wood, the produce of or imported from any Foreign Country, the ton 2 10 0 Opium, the lb 0 1 0 Orange Flower Water, the lb ... 0 0 1 Quinine, Sulphate of, the ounce Sebadilla Seeds, the cwt 0 4 0 Speckled Wood, the produce of or imported from any Foreign Country, the ton Succades, the produce of or imported from any Foreign Country, the lb. Sweetwood, the produce of cr imported from any Foreign Country, the lb. Teeth, viz. Elephant's, Sea Cow, Sea Horse, or Sea Morse Teeth, the cwt 0 1 0 Water, viz. Mineral Water, the gallon Resolution agreed to ; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Poulett Thomson and Mr. Labouchere. NORTHERN and EASTERN RAILWAY. The Directors of the Northern and Eastern Railway Company dined together with their friends on Wednesday, at Lovegrove's West India Dock Tavern, Blackwall. Among those invited were Mr. Ward, M. P. for St. Alban's ; Mr. Alston, M.P. for Hertfordshire ; Mr. Pryme, M.P. for Cambridge ; Mr. Handley, M.P. for Lincoln shire ; Mr. William Marshall, M.P. ; Mr. Fuller Mait land, and others connected with the country through which the line passes. In the absence of Mr. John Marshall, the Chairman of the company, Mr. Bagshaw, M.P., the De puty Chairman, presided. After the usual toasts of " The King," " The Queen," " The Princess Victoria," and " The Army and Navy," Mr. Bagshaw rose to propose the health of " Mr. Ward, the Chairman, and the Mem bers of the Committee of the House of Commons, for whose indefatigable endeavours, in ascertaining the merits of the projected Railway, this Company is so much in debted." Mr. BAGSHAW, in an excellent speech (which was much applauded tnroughout), described shortly the difficulties which the Company had to encounter—the opposition which was made by more than one party to the progress of their Bill through the House of Commons, and the triumphant success which had crowned the labours of the Directors. " This success," Mr. Bagshaw said, " has been almost en tirely owing to the patient and indefttigable attention which Mr. Ward, day after day, gave to the evidence on bath sides, for and against the Bill. Wearisome as the investi gation was, and laborious as such inquiries must necessarily be to all those who fairly and honestly enter into them with the firm intention of ascertaining the truth of the case, and of guarding the public for whom he acted, as well as the conflicting parties before him, I can venture to say that no man who ever sat on a Committee of the House of Com mons better discharged his duty to the satisfaction of all parties, for and against the Bill. Net content with the information afforded to him by the evidence before the Committee, Mr. Ward has gone out of his way, and has spared neither time nor reasonable trouble to judge with his own eyes of the value of the evidence, and of the compa rative merits of the competing lines. Thus setting an ex ample, continued the Hon. Chairman, which I trust will be followed by all Committees of the House of Commons, and which I am happy to say has been followed by another Noble Chairman of a Committee, and which has been at tended by the same signal success. I mean the success of really ascertaining the true merits of the case on which he was conscientiously to adjudicate." The Hon. Chairman concluded with proposing the health of Mr. Ward, which was drunk with three times three, and one cheer more. Mr. WARD then rose, and as his address is of much im portance to all those interested in railways, particular care has been taken to report it correctly.—" Gentlemen," said Mr. Ward, " I rise to return thanks, for personal compliment is always embarrassing, and in this case it is particularly so, because I feel that the expressions of praise on the part of my Honourable Friend are exaggerated and undeserved. In acting as I did as Chairman of the Committee to which your Bill was referred, and in bestowing on it the pains which I did bestow on it, I did no more than my duty. I had long before resolved that I never would vote on any Committee respecting matters brought before it, unless I had been able to give such attendance as would enable me to form a competent opinion. In the present case I had even a stronger motive actuating me to obtain a full know ledge of the facts of the case, for I felt I was a party in some respect interested, inasmuch as the line of this rail way will pass near and enhance the value of prope r ty which I shall probably inherit. Feeling this interest, lat once communicated it to my fellow labourers in the Com mittee, and I invited them to watch my conduct as Chair man the more narrowly, inasmuch as I frankly stated to them that I did feel that interest in the success of the line which I have already mentioned. Gentlemen, lam glad to say, that as the case of your Bill proceeded, there was no fear of the decision of the Com:nittee being influenced by any preference of mine ; for a case more clear, more sim ple in its exposition (and such was the unanimous and spon taneous opinion of the Committee), more decisive in its superiority over the line which was brought forward to compete with it, never was brought forward before a Com mittee of the House of Commons. Gentlemen, I congra tulate you on your success ; nor do I see that your success is at all checked by the proposed Bill of Mr. Morrison, to which allusion has been made by your Chairman. With respect to the proposed Bill, I will take the opportunity to say that I never knew a Bill so universally reprobated as this Bill was by the House of Commons. There really was only one opinion expressed by all parties, that this Bill would be a most wantpn, prejudicial, and impolitic inter ference with the rights of capital. It has been said that such undertakings as these are principally set on foot by persons of capital, for their own profit. Gentlemen, I want to know by what other means such vast undertak ings as this is are to be supported, except by persons of large capital ? Really this objection is among the most absurd and puerile that could possibly be set up ; and is it to be supposed, I would ask, that persons would embark their capital in canals, or railways, or docks, or any other such undertakings, which, profitable as they may be to the individuals engaged in them, are still more beneficial to the nation at,large, if it were not for the con fidence which has hitherto existed, that their speculations would not be improperly interfered with by Parliament. Gentlemen, I can tell yoti that any such Bill as that pro posed by Mr. Morrison never will be passed by the present House of Commons. It may be useful to mention that when Mr. Morrison withdrew his Bill the other night, he made use of expressions which implied that his Bill would he passed the next Session. But an Hon. Member imme diately got up and declared that it should not go forth to the world that the House of Commons was favourable to the Bill, and therefore he called on Mr. Morrison to divide the House on the question. But such was the plain una nimous feeling of the House against this Bill, that there was no division ; and I will venture to say that there was not a Member of the House of Commons preient who had not the fullest conviction that no attempt would be made to pass such a Bill this Session or the next." After some general observations on the excellence of the line of the Company, which Mr. Ward said he regarded as the main line of communication between London and the north, he concluded by proposing the "health of Mr. Bag shaw." The health of Mr. Alston and Mr. Fuller Mait land, as representing the London proprietors between Lon don and Cambridge ; of Mr. Prvme, the Member for Cam bridge ; of Mr. Handley, the Member for Lincolnshire, were then drank. The health also of the Chairman of the Company, Mr. John Marshall, was especially honoured ; and, after various other toasts had been gone through, the company broke up much pleased with the entertainment. MILITARY LECTURES.—T O his credit be it spoken, Major-General Sir James Douglas, commanding at Limerick, in addition to the sufficiently arduous duties which his station calls upon him to fulfil, gives a military lecture once a week at his own house to all officers in the garrison except those on duty. And, like Marshal Ney, he has them to break fast with him ; that over, they repair to a room expreshly fitted up for the purpose, where the General has his maps and plans to illustrate the campaigns about which he is going to speak. He then proceeds to explain how difficult manoeuvres succeeded, and how others failed, marking each on the plan as he goes on; and having traced the movements of the contend ing armies in detail, he shows the principles upon which each acted, and points out where they were true and where false.— Fraser's Magazine. CONSTANTINOPLE. JUNE 22.—0 n the 16th instant an autograph letter of the Sultan was brought to the Divan, and informed this assembly that the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs having become vacant in consequence of the dismissal of Akif Effendi, the Ex-Caimakan of the Grand Vizier, Ahmet Coloozi Pasha, had been appointed his successor. The public, on the reception of this intelligence, perfectly unexpected, was at first led to view the removal of a func tionary who had insulted the dignity of the English repre sentative, after grossly violating the rights of the nation, in the light of a decisive triumph, won by British influence over that of Russia and her numerous compeers. This occurrence was looked upon as a proof o f th e S u l tan ' s ear being more open to the voice of reason, ju s ti ce , an d self interest, than the delusive suggestions of fanaticism, arro gance, and hypocritical friends. It was inferred that he had preferred sacrificing a favourite, and braving the dis pleasure of his advisers, to compromising the stability of the friendly relations with a country eminently interested in the maintenance of his empire. Every one expected to see the Porte officially informing the British Ambassa dor that the illegality of Akif Effendi's proceedings had drawn upon him the Sultan's resentment, and that his re moval from office was the punishment which the trespass of his duties had merited. These expectations have not been realized. Lord Ponsonby may tacitly, but he cannot officially, consider the dismissal of this functionary as a con sequence of his representations. Unless he be officially as sured of the contrary, he is indeed bound to consider it as an event owing to motives to which he is a stranger. It becomes impossible to account for the Sultan's conduCt in the present instance, unless by making the following suppo sition, which is not altogether without foundation. It would appear, that after making the declaration before his council of his determination never to consent to the dis missal of one of the Ministers at the request of a foreign Ambassador, the Sultan has been made aware of the ex ceedingly awkward position in which he would be situated were the British Government to insist on obtaining the sa tisfaction Lord Ponsonby had advised the Porte to offer. The dismissal of the Reis Effendi, previous to an answer ar riving from England, appeared to him essential to the pre ' vention of so embarrassing a dilemma. This mezzo terniaze promised to screen him from the humiliation of submitting to conditions imposed upon him by a foreign Power, and at the same time to screen him from the results a refusal on his part might occasion. This diplomatic ruse of the Sultan is as clever as the stratagem of the beaver in the fable, which, to escape from the hunter, tears off with its own teeth the part of its body which constitutes the chief object of his cupidity. The present Reis Effendi, though inferior to Akif Effendi in point of diplomatic tact, is far superior to him in point of honesty. He enjoys much credit among the people, principally in consequence of having, through his decided opposition to the formation of the treaty at Hook Unkiar 'Skeles s i, d rawn upon hi mse lf t h e anger of the Sultan ; and lost his situation as Lieutenant of the Grand Vizier. The steam frigate Nile started on the 19th for Alexandria. The troubles in Bulgaria continue to engage the atten tion of the Divan. Hussein Pasha, of Widdin, who is at present at Constantinople, was yesterday summoned to ap pear before this assembly, and had to defend himself against numerous accusations sent against him from his prefecture. The Mousselim of Berkosza has been dismissed from his situation. It is not governors, but the venality of its ad ministration, which the Turkish Government should change. Therein lies the real cause of the empire's misery and ruin. I mentioned in my last, that the British merchants es tablished in the city had come to the resolution of address ing a petition to his Majesty's Government, requesting it to support Lord l'onsonby's application to the Porte, and take the necessary steps for asserting the rights of English sub jects in Turkey, and guaranteeing in future their better ob servance by the Turks. I herein enclose a copy of this important document. Letters arrived here last night from Persia, state Mr. Ellis has taken leave of the Schab, and was waiting at Tabreez for the arrival Mr. Maclean. During his last audience he received marks of honour such as never were conferred on foreign Ministers at the Court of Persia. The Sehah made him a present of a magnificently-caparisoned Arabian, shawls, and hiS portrait surrounded with valuable diamonds. According to an arrangement passed between Mr. Ellis and the Persian Government, of 5 per cent., is to be laid on every article of British manufacture imported into Persia, and same duty on Persian exports. June 16. TO THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, &C. My Lord,--We, the undersigned British merchants, established in this city, beg leave to draw your Lordship's attention to a recent occurrence materially affecting not only our own individual interest and personal safety, but those of all British residents in this country. We allude to the case of Mr. Churchill, on whom the Turkish authorities committed a most flagrant outrage, by first cruelly beating, and afterwards immuring him in the Bagnio, where he was suffered to remain several days, in gross violation of the treaties which govern our residence in Turkey. The circumstances of this affair must, however, be al ready before your Lordship, as well as the proceedings adopted thereon by his Excellency the Ambassador. As far as these proceedings are within our knowledge, we have every reason to feel proud of the manner in which this serious affair has been taken up, as well as of the im mediate and energetic representations made to the Ambas sador by our Consul-General, ever vigilantly watchful over our interests, as also the firmness shown by his Excellency, alike befitting the gravity of the offence and the dignity of the nation insulted in its perpetration. It has been with the greatest concern, therefore, that we have learned from a communication made to us by the Con sul-General, at the desire of the Ambassador, that, the affair of Mr. Churchill not having been settled with the Turkish Government, it was his Excellency's intention to refer it to his Majesty's Government. So unprepared were we for such a result, that we had rather expected to have seen the Turkish Government hasten to anticipate the proceedings of the Ambassador by a spontaneous expression of its concern for such an act on the part of its officers, by a prompt punishment of all the parties engaged in it, by preferring some solemn assurance that care should be taken to prevent its recurrence, and by making' ample satisfactio❑ to the injured individual. We will concede that the first outrage was committed by subordinate local authorities, whose acts might admit of excuse or explanation, but the subsequent imprisonment was deliberately ordered by a high public functionary, the official depositary, in fact, of the treaties existing between the two countries, one who could not be ignorant of the privileges they guaranteed, and who was not ignorant of that in the instance in question he was grossly and inten tionally violating them. Considering, therefore, that the present is not the only instance, although the most flagrant one, of personal violence offered to British subjects, we cannot but see in their re peated occurrence, more especially of late, an intentional infraction of the treaties, and indeed the existence of some fixed design on the part of the Turkish Government to as- Eume to itself a power or control in such matters which would be dangerous ever to concede. Considering, moreover, that forbearance seems only to encourage aggression, exemplified first in regard to our trade by the numerous arbitrary departures from capitulations and the tariff, grievances all remaining unredressed, and at length gross outrages affecting our personal safety, we do venture to hope that his Majesty's Government will see in present occasion a fit moment for asserting our privi eges and for guaranteeing to us their future observance. We have the honour to be, R. SARELL. J. N. BLACK. A. WRIGHT. C. HANSON. C. EDE. C. LA FONTAINE. J. JACOB. —Morning Paper. W. WOOD. J. ROTHWELL. T. PERKINS. W. WEBSTER. G. A. GREEN. T. HARDY. We understand there was not the slightest truth in t h e r eport circulated that a marriage was on the lapis between Lord G--th and Miss V---s, as nothing of the kind has been in contemplation. BULIVER'S " DEVEREUX," IN SHILLING NUM.BRS.—The first number of Mr. Bulwer's " Devereux," price one shilling —(to be completed in 6 numbers, with em bellisliments).—is published this day in the weekly issue of " Colburn's Modern Novelists." This clever and popular novel is allowed to be one of gr..Bulwer's best and most suc cessful performances; it, therefore, needs no eulogium at the present period, and, considering that in the fashionable garb of 3 vols., large impressions were called for; now that it appears in a single volume for six shillings, and adorned with engravings, which increase, by illustration, the interest of the story, its circulation will, no doubt, be universal. E INDIGO TRADE..—On Thursday the quarterly sale of Indigo commenced, and there was a full attendance of buyers from the manufacturing districts. There are more orders than . usual from the Continent. The total quantity declared for sale is 9,362 chests, being the last year's crop, with the exception of 411 chests. The sale consists of 8,862 chests of Bengal, 226 Kuspah, 248 Madras, 20 of Bimlapatan, and 6 Pondicherry and Manilla. Before the sale commenced about 100 chests were withdrawn. The qualities are chiefly good and good middling, with a proportion of fine. When the sale began the biddings ranged from 63. to Bd. per pound higher, but subsequently went from 3d. to 9d. per pound, the average being full 6d. per pound advance upon the °notations realized at the sale in April last. During yesterday's sale, 750 chests were disposed of, fetching from 4s. to 7s. 9d. per pound. Only 8 chests of Bengal went under ss. 10d, per pound, and about 30 chests of Madras realized from 4s. 10d. to ss. 6d. per pound, being from 3d. to 4d. per pound higher than the prices realized at the sales in April last. Th e w h o l e declaration will take several days before it is finished. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We yesterday noticed the complaint of Sir Charles Burrell against Mr. Cundy, and the order for the attendance of that aentleman at the b ar o f t h e H ouse of Commons on Monday next. No one can blame Sir Charles Burrell for wishing to show that he was not justly chargeable with the corruption imputed to many Members who have taken au active part in committees on Railway Bills. If the Hon. Baronet did not receive 15,0001. for a piece of land worth 2001. at most, it was but natural that he should feel sore under the imputation. But the Standard of last night has made the complaint of the Honourable Ba ronet, and the subsequent proceedings, the subject of al furious invective against the Whigs and Radicals. We are gravely told, that " never before, in English history, was any man put to answer criminally for a private conversation involving neither plot nor conspiracy, except by the Court of Star Chamber. - We give full licence to Whigs and Radicals to search for any precedent of the kind in the records of the unreformed Parliament, or during the seventy years. of Tory misrule.' " Now with out going into the merits of the case, or the propriety of the House taking the course they have done, it may be as well to remind The Standard that the corrup tion was imputed to a Tory Member, Sir Charles Burrell, by whom the sibject was brought before the House ; that the motion for bringing Mr. Cundy to the bar was made by a Tory, the Right Hon. C. W. Wynn ; andi therefore, if crime there be, or if the HouSe of Commons have pursued an improper or tyrannical course, it has been for an offence against a Tory, and it is at Tory instigation that the alleged offender is to be brought before its bar. Iu its anxiety to abuse the House of Commons, The Standard has conveniently overlooked the cir cumstance, that the occasion has been furnished by the acts of its own friends, the Tories. While we are on this subject, we may observe that some surprise is ex , pressed in the world that an uneasiness under the im putation of having been influenced by personal motives in their legislative capacity should be confined to the Members of the House of Commons. If Sir Charles Burrell considered that he would be unworthy of his seat in the House of Commons, and even unfit to as sociate with gentlemen, if he had abused a public trust by making it subservient to selfish purposes, why is it allowable ,in a member of another branch of the Legislature to be influenced by personal consi derations ? In the House of Lords, in the de bate on the second reading of the South Dur ham Railway Bill, a certain Noble Marquis openly opposed the measure because it would be injurious to his private interest if passed. The ground on which the Noble Marquis opposed and voted against the Bill was, however, approved of by the House, for it was thrown out. It would not surprise us if Mr. Cundy were, on Monday night, to allege in his justification that with the example of the Upper House to justify Sir Charles Burrell, he did not conceive that in stating the Hon. Baronet had voted for a Railway Bill, in order to be enabled to receive 15,0001. for what was only worth 200/., he was imputing to him anything of which there was cause to be ashamed.— Morning Chronicle. Though the three recent elections for the counties of Essex, Warwick, and Merioneth, can have left no dnubt as to what are the feelings of the free and un fettered part of the constituency as to the measures pur sued by our O'Connell-bound Administration, yet, in the teeth of these admonitions, it twill have been seen by the list which we published from th e St an d ar d, that no less than fifty representatives of English coun ties have been found to vote for one of the most hate- ful and revolutionary of their measures—the celebrated appropriation clause in the Irish Church Bill. It is some consolation and set-off against this melancholy fact, that there are said to be twenty others, who, though professing to espouse the cause of the Whig Ministers, prudently stayed away upon the same occasion. We trust that the names of the fifty in question will not be lost sight of, and that in the counties which have the honour of being thus represented on a question of such vital importance to the Constitution, both in Church and State will carry with them these names to the hustings, should any of these persons venture again to solicit the votes of their injured and insulted constituents. While upon this subject we cannot help remarking that, since the three county elections alluded to, the Ministerial Press has been remarkably silent upon the till then favourite topic of a dissolution of Parliament. This was one of the metiiods by means of which the House of Lords were to have been dragooned into a submis sion to the popular will. Unluckily for this kind of argument, the three elections in question prove that the House of Lords represents more of the popular will upon the questions of Church spoliation and of O'Connell submission than unhappily belongs to the popular branch of the Legislature. At least such, we suspect, will turn out to be the case, when any of the fifty names in the list which we have alluded to, have the joint permission of Lord John Russell and his hard task-master to make the experiment.—Morn. Herald. One of those meetings, which belong more to the 15th and 16th centuries than to the present day, was held yesterday in Exeter Hall, pursuant to a previous advertisement, and for the purpose of " exposing the perils with which Protestantism is now environed by the motion of Mr. Plumptre." Staunch Protestants, as we not-only are, but were sworn to be, almost upon the altar, from our earliest youth—and holding, in con sequence, the faith and the rites of the Roman Catho- lic - Church to be inconsistent with the pure doctrines and precepts of Christianity, we are frank to own that we do nut entertain the same terror that the speakers and auditors at the meeting seemed to feel, ether at the motion of the Honourable Member, or of any other which either he or others may bring for ward. We are too proud of the faith in which we have been educated, to dream for an instant that it can receive any greater shock from the motion of Mr. Plumptre than it would from the election of Mr. Salo mons to represent the Borough of Southward. At all events, we dread not the shock, come from what quarter it may. Our Protestant faith is either a sound and true, or an unsound and false, faith--if true, where is the danger ?—if false, the sooner it is overthrown the better. But the time is past and gone for disputing upon such matters—and it is nothing less than an accusa tion upon the good sense of the country that such a meeting as that which was held yesterday at Exeter Hall should have received such countenance as it did. " Dens' Theology," forsooth ! Who is there that has read the nonsense put forth upon this subject who does not experience a nausea at the very mention of the subject ? But there was a freshener yesterday, if we may use the expression, to the s pirit of Protes tantism—we- beg pardon—to the spirit of intolerance —in the shape of a circular letter from the Pope to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland , which, o f a ll the fabrications and forgeries that have come under our vision, is the most gross and the most internally indefensible. It is a Tory-fabrication from the begin ning in tne to the end, and 'may b _ C safely deposited •. tomb of all the Capulet, as the fruitless attempt of a contemptible . faction to turn the hearts of Protestants against Catholics, and t o convert the p eace f u l to lerance of opinion which n ow ex i sts between them into a war of national mischief and disgraceful in jury. There is no one, not a fit occupant o f a ce ll i n Bedlam, who can peruse it, without feeling that it is ,-,- a fabrication from the beginning to the en d. - The irre ligious character of it is not to be expressed in words— ! its "ma l hear it'g 11 0 savage would adhere to—and yet the dregs of a woe-begone, and all but extinct, faction, would press it upon the people of England as a genuine document ! itivington is the printer. He is, in course, in • • possessio n of a copy of the original—let it be shown, and we shall, after proper inquiry, lie convinced—if not, we must brand the authors of it as liars and calumnia tors, which, by the bye, we believe them to be. The document is before us, but we have not' room for it.— Morning Advertiser. THE AUTHORESS Of " MOTHERS AND DAUGIIP TEES. "---Among the prominent characters figuring in Mrs. Gore's new novel of "Mrs. Armytaoe, or, Female Donilna. Lion," is one of a certain American Tory, or r ather a Yankee Tuft-Hunter, which is likely to excite some speculation. It is a character, by the way, with which continental travellers are said to have latterly become familiar. We do not assert that " Leonidas Lomax" has a specific original ; but curious ru mours arc beginning to prevail on the subject. COUAT. VICE-CHANCERY 7:1 Z: / FRANKS V. ROCrq- ') ' .''. ' I. ': - Mr. JACOB opened this cause on= i yart:44.l ,. 17ri•tptitirt About 1834 the defendant, Rorer 7 40' de:it - plus! pssctling • a small estate in Monmouthshire, vilich i ,tlfo) . amrirf;.% , a 1 4, clergyman at Shrewsbury, wanted to )4Velias4..-- - 1 tiri day, tue Bth of March in that year, 1. 1 / 441 ' t cclied upon the plaintiff about one o'clock, and the terms being then agreed upon, both parties immodiately went to Mr. Hilditch, the plaintiff's solicitor, why drew up a written agreement between them, which state the purchase money to consist of a sum of .5004, paid by way of deposit, and a further sum of 7,5004 to be paid at a future day. Some time after Mr. Watson, the solicitor of the defendant, pre pared a more formal agreement, whiclf stated the purehaso money at 8,000/. When this wu.s road over to the plain tiff, for the purpose of obtaining his signature to it, he de clared there was a great mistqke, and that he bad not agreedjo give more than 7,000. 1 . It appeared that the plaintiff Was a very old man, betveen 83 and 84 years of age, and it was alleged he was very deaf, or hard cf hear ing. He now filed.this bill, alleging the.t Rogers had taken advantage of this 'infirmity, and had induced Hilditch to in sert 7,500 L, instead of 6,5001. His HoNoun gave judgment. As the bill charged a case of fr au d which was not proved. and as no relief was re quired in the event of ;;he agreement remaining unaltered, the bill must be dismissed with costs. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT, NOltri 1 AMPTON, JUDY 13. WYBORN AND WIFE V. GAMEAN, GENT., AND OTHERS. This was an action to recover damages for an assaoL committed on the plaintiff' s wife. 'The plaintiff is a sur veyor and architect, living at P e t er b otroug h ;tine defex:tlant is an attorney, residing at Stilton, about six miles distant. from the above city. The Jury found a verdict for the p 1 aintiff. Dianags, 40/, WESTERN CIRCUIT, w IN , 7IIESTER, JULY 13. CRIM. CON.—GARDNER Vq. NVA.P.D. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a'Major in the Army, and a Magistrate of the County, against the defendant, who drove the Exeter Telegraph, to recover compensation in damages, in consequence of his having had criminal conversation with his (the plaintiff's) wife. Th e plaintiff, who is now forty-five years of age, married Miss Plunkett, of Southampton, in 1826, the,lady being then 18 years of age, very beautiful and accouplished, and with a fortune of eleven thousand pounds Consols, which, upon her marriage, was settled as follows :—orbe hundred pounds a year on herself as pin-money ; the rmt on the husband for life. After his death the whole of the dividends on the wife during her life, and then to the_ children, equally to be divided amongst them. Two daughters were the result of the union. From some cause, which we must leave to conjecture,. the plaintiff and his wife had slept apart for several years. They were on visiting terms with most of the respectable families in the neighbourhood of theirhouse, which was at Cholderton Lodge, near Salisbury. About December last, some of their female acquaintances discon tinued their visits to the plaintiff's wife, in a manner which excited his attention ; and it was at length intimated to him that she had been seen walking and riding with the defendant, and that she had been seen in his company at Southampton. On investigation, lie discovered that an improper intercourse had been for some time carried on. She forthwith returned to her friends, whom she soon after quitted again, and now lived with the defendant at Basing stoke, in a good house, keeping two servants, two horses, and a buggy. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 1001. CROWN COURT.—John Death?, an, aged 60, was in dicted for the wilful murder of John Hall, on Sunday, the 19th June last. The deceased was, and had beet for twenty years, the. letter chrrier between Bramdean, in this county, and Aires,- ford. On Sunday, the 19th of June last, at half-past fivp in the morning, he started on his journey, but did not reach Alresford, nor did he return at the usual time. Search ;wi ts made for him, and about six o'clock on the Sunday evening his body ;vas discovered in Old Park -wood. It was lying in a little hollow a few yards from the road. His head was beaten to pieces ; and several stones, one of which was pro duced in Court, were lying about him, covered with blood and hair. His bag was by his side, his pockets were empty, and his purse was found empty several yards from his per son, in the direction of the village of Ropley, which was about a mile distant. The prisoner was a waggoner, but l►ad not been in any regular employ for a considerable tim'. On the Saturday previous to the murder, about twelve o'clock in the day, he went into the shop of a man named :Scoley, in AlrestPrd, whom be had known for some time previous, and said he was very badly off, that he bad neither money nor victuals, and thought he should go to his parish,, but did not know exactly where it was. Scoley gave him threepence, upon which he went away and immediately spent it. He was proved to have been in the neighbourhood of Alresford by the following incident. A man nameti Bile was employed all the night between Saturday and Stuidav in making some alterations in the road between Alr.L.sford and Petersfleld. About twelve o'clock the prisoner cams• up to him, and re peated the story of his extreme distress. They were in conversation a few minutes, when the prisoner left; and proceeded towards the place where the road turns off to to Bramdean. About half-past two a witness, who lived at Bishop's Sutton, was getting up, and, hearing footsteps, looked out of the window to see who was p,tisiug. He saw the prisoner walking towards the old Park Wood, where the mug der was committed. At half-past four a witness who was cutting some grass saw a man dressed es the preceding wit nesses described him walking towards the wood, but he could not swear to his identity. This was the last time the prisoner was seen before the mur.ier occurred. About half-past six a woman, named Petts, who lived three quarters of a mile from the spot where ti►e body was found, and in the direction of the village of Ropley, saw the pri soner at a pond near her house washing his hands. After going to a beer house in the village be went to the Chequers and spent lid. While sitting there a little girl who came in observed on the sleeve of his round frock, which was tucked up, same blood, about the size of a man's hand. On that day he went to Southampton with a ►waggon, accompanied by another witness. They went to a man who kept . the Vine Tap, of the name of Cross►well. Crosswell said, " 'lbis is a terrible thing, the murder of the old postman." The other witness said. " Yes ; do you know whom they suspect ?" Crosswell said, "Yes; John Deadman there." Prisoner said, " How can they judge me, when . I wasn't in that part of the country at the time ?" The other witness returned with him to AlresfOrd on the next day. The prisoner paid for several things on the way. On their return thep went to an inn at Aires ford. Shackell, a Bow street officer, came there, and-said to the prisoner," I apprehend you for the ►wilful murder of John Hall." James Lawes was then examined --I was in custody in Winchester gaol in June. I saw the prisoner in the same yard. He called me aside, and said, " Now, I tell you the truth ; - I was the man ►who knocked hint down with a stick, and then knocked his brains out with a flint, and threw him into a hedge row." (The prisoner here changed colour very much.) The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Th e prisoner was sentenced to be executed on Friday next. COURT OF CONIMON COUNCIL.--Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of business. Mr. Hall brought up the Report of the Committee to whom it was referred to examine the allegation in the petition of the in habitants of the Borough, relative to the election of art alderman of the Ward of Bridge-Without. Mr. Pritchard wished that the consideration of so important a question should be postponed until the report of the Committee of the whole Court upon the Municipal Institutions of the City should he discussed, and moved an amendment to that effect. Tho amendment was negatived, and the report was agreed to.-- Adjcn THE DIARY OP A DESENNUYEE.—The specu lations relative to the authorship of this piquant work are cu rious. One distinguished critic, " The Athenaeum," observes, It is singular that with so much ability of her own, the author should have imitated so closely the style, the manner ism, the modes of thought and of expression of a contempo rary writer. One is almost tempted to believe that the object was to pass off the work as a production of Lady i'vlorTan's, so closely does it copy even her acknowledged faults." 'We are authorised to state, most distinctly, that it is not the production of Lady Morgan. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 15.—A few days ago another instalment was paid to Russia, and the speedy evacua tion of Silistria is expected. The steam-boat, which brought last week 121 millions of piastres, partly in gold, partly in bills, as tribute from Egypt, brought alio a very humble letter from Mehemet Ali to the Porte. The money was very wel come, for the Porte is said to be in some pecuniary embarrass ments in consequence of the payments made to Russia during the last 3 months, though the presents sent by the governors of t h e provinces on the marriage of the Princess Alirimah amounted to a large sum. Thirty millions of piastres arc said t o have flowed into the Sultan's treasury on that occasion. Frankfurt, July 9. --Exchange o n L o nd on , (Bill s ) 1504 Twa Months, 150.—Fr an kf ort P aper , July 10. An addition to our list of patrician Authors is about to be made in the name of the Hon. Grantelev Ber keley, M. P., brother of Lord Segrave. The work . which this gentleman is on the eve of producing, is an historical romance, founded on the eventful annals of his own house, and is to be entitled " Berkeley Castle." What grand and chi valrous associations throng around the name of this old baro nial i%!sidence ! And who can so ably illustrate them, as one of that distinguished race, whose name has so long been eon_ spicuous in english history ? Specimens of the Clupea alba, of the a we , Sprattus, or common Sprat, and of the Gnbius, which is new to Britain, have been taken from the Solway Firth, near Whinnyrigg, by Dr. Parnell. ;